All right, it looks like service has been resumed. Thanks to Moonsword for digging up the lead that broke the case: there was a stray bit of code buried deep in DCF's guts that set all cookies to expire at the end of 2022. Moonsword found a post on another board about the same thing happening to someone in 2011.

I would not be entirely surprised if presented with evidence that this happened to us too, at the time, and Dave or I changed it to 2022 on the assumption that there was no way we'd still be using this ancient software at that unimaginably distant date, then forgot all about it. :)

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